20. At the opening meeting of the session, the Executive Director made an introductory statement focusing on the main tasks before the Council in the light of General Assembly resolutions 42/186 and 42/187, in which the Assembly endorsed the Environmenta Perspective to the Year 2000 and Beyond and welcomed the report of the World Commission on Environment and Development entitled Our Common Future. 2/ The full text of the Executive Director’s statement is contained in documents UNEP/GCSS.1/6/Add.3 and Corr.1.